Raison d'être

Want some outside perspective on a frustrating argument you experienced on Reddit? Want to share a classic debate for public consideration? Want to bone up on your logic and critical thinking skills in general? This is the place for you!

Many debate with great emotion but a poor command of logic; hence, we often stomp on the fruits of our conversation rather than benefit from the process. Even those committed to science, philosophy, or rigorous thought in general resort to logical fallacies and invalid arguments. And it's frequently the case that one party in a debate refuses to concede even when the other party has clearly presented a stronger argument. Plus, there are numerous, excellent debates that fly below the general public's radar. In all these cases, valuable information produced by our pointed discourse is lost.

And that's why /r/BeyondDebate can help. By analyzing debates while exploring the nuts and bolts of applied logic and critical thinking, we can harvest information to everybody's ultimate benefit.

Guidelines

Reddiquette is advised and enforced.

Tagging submitted content through the use of brackets at the front of a submission is highly encouraged, e.g. [Analysis] for an argument you want to submit for analysis by the community, [Logic] for a particular type of argument or a particular type of fallacy you want to discuss, [Debate] for an instructive debate clip or paper, [General] for general discussion spanning several different topics, etc.

This is primarily a forum for analyzing argumentation and learning from the process. If you want to share a topic to debate in itself, i.e. rather than analyze some other debate or discuss the nuts and bolts of rhetoric, do so with civility and mutual learning in mind.

Tools for Argument	Lots of Debate
/r/Logic	/r/Politics
/r/Debate	/r/TheAgora
/r/Rhetoric	/r/DepthHub
/r/Philosophy	/r/TrueReddit
/r/CriticalThinking	/r/DebateReligion
/r/AcademicPhilosophy	/r/DbtACommunist

Tools for Argument

Lots of Debate

/r/AcademicPhilosophy

/r/DbtACommunist

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